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Chicago examiner thursday august 5 1909 14 pages vol vii no 195 a m price one cent delivered carrier 30 cents per month final tariff vote will be cast in the senate at 2 p m to-day opposition spends night in attacks only ten-minute talks to precede balloting ef guard joker correction aldrich resorts to legislative trick to fend off amend ments by opponents washington aug 4 the concurrent resolution that will correct the errors in the leather schedule was introduced in the senate to-day and to-night the final an athemas were hurled at the tariff bill by the republicans who are in opposition to-morrow ten-minute speeches will be leveled at the measure until 2 o'clock ar rives and then will come tlie final vote there is not the slightest doubt on the part of any one now that the bill will be come a law by nightfall the same success will attend the con current resolution though there are not a few senators who if outspoken would confess to a fear that at the last minute there may he a hitch that will put the correction of the leather schedule over till fall the aldrich plan however is to fling this bone at the opposition and kill all other efforts to improve the bill customs court slaughtered the day's events included the practical slaughter of the customs court tn the house which cut ont of the urgent de ficiency appropriation bill all appropraitons for salaries for the judges of the proposed court according to senator borah he has an understanding with the attorney gen eral whereby these judges will not be ap pointed but senator aldrich to-night as serted that the president would assert his prerogative and appoint the judges and fix a tentative salary depending on congress to appropriate the money at the regular session next winter the president will receive a petition to morrow signed by democrats and repub licans alike requesting him to name former congressman hepburn of lowa as one of the judges the speeches to-day were made by sen ators simmons beveridge hale and gamble and to-night senators cummins and daniel addressed the senate in the main the condemnations of the bill which were delivered by cummins and beveridge for the insurgent republicans have been temperate this is out of respect to the wishes of the president who at the inter view which he had wuh senators bev eridge and dplliver yesterday requested that if they could not vote for the bill they would be as moderate as possible in condemning it pays tribute to Taft senator cummins in his final attack on the bill to-night declared that he would not accept 10 cents on 1 that being the proportion of downward revision which he estimates is afforded by the bill he paid tribute to president Taft for his efforts in behalf of downward revision and credited to the president all the downward revision that the bill achieves but he expressed the conviction that the president started too late to secure the sort of downward revision that was promised by the repub lican party senator cummins concluded at a few min utes past eleven and senator daniel took the floor to explain as the minority repre sentative on the finance committee and in the senate conference committee the dem ocratic position with regard to the bill at midnight senator daniel was still talking to a sleepy senate aldrich works legislative trick the concurrent resolution to perfect the leather schedule that tho votes of the western range senators might be had for the tariff bill was presented by sen ator aldrich late this afternoon with consummate legislative skill he threw the resolution before the senate under conditions that prevented amend ment at the time trusting to lhis own powers and to those of the president to prevent embarrassment later mccumber a much-abused senator from north dakota was used as a stalking horse aldrich introduced his resolution and mccumber by agreement followed immediately with a joint resolution chang ing the drawback provisions of the bill threatened amendments that were to fol low would come up on the joint resolu tion the concurrent resolution is to pass the joint resolution may pass next winter senator mclaurin of mississippi rose to the bait and sent along his amendment placing cotton bagging on the free list this amendment falls upon the resolution there were other amendments threatened by thelr proponents who after thinking the question oyer decided to await develop ments following the introduction of the resolu tions aldrich attempted to split the re maining time for debate between the friends and opponents of the conference re port classing the republican insurgents with the democrats cummins resented this sharply he said he was a republi can while perfectly willing to trust to the fairness of the democrats he refused to be cast overboard by the republicans bailey came to his rescue with a propo sition to divide the time into three parts but gallinger objected i will never consent to the adoption of huge ship races to save tariff on costly cargo other liners bound for united states are hunted by wireless so speed may be increased new york aug 4 on board the giant liner pennsylvania bound for this port is a costly cargo of wines brandy and french champagnes it is said besides other fine merchandise down in her furnace rooms firemen are stoking coal as if their lives depended ou it for if the liner reaches new york before the new tariff schedule i goes into effect it will mean a saving of 10,000 to 20,000 in duties the pennsylvania is due to-morrow to day her agents sent several wireless mess ages urging more speed the pennsylvania was not the only west ward bound ship the wireless operators were trying to reach to-day bound for here is the st paul from southampton and cherbourg due on satur day also due on that day are the cam pania from liverpool and queenstown the french liner la touraine from havre the duca degli abruzzi from naples the hamburg from naples and the st an drew from antwerp all these vessels are said to carry in their cargoes goods on which there is to be a greatly advanced duty in the new schedules la touraine is known to have a large cargo of fine champagnes and brandies the new tariff schedule does not become a law until the day after the president affixes his signature want a ship great old liners for sale cheap new york aug 4 the day of the single-screw liner is done the once crack cunard racers etruria and unibria which first cut under the six-day record are tied up useless at birkenhead england to-day the cunard line agents announced that these two vessels which cost nearly 1,400,000 each to build were for sale and that no reasonable offer would be refused the reason is they are too costly to be op erated in this day of twin and quadruple screws and of the turbine engine the tjmbria was launched in 1885 and the etruria came out a year later they were the wonder of that day they were considered ocean mammoths and it was debated whether much larger vessels would be built but the etruria and umbrla were enor mous coal burners they devoured more than 450 tons a day and when the new turbines appeared they made trips with ever-decreasing passenger lists and finally were laid off the alaska the once famous gnion liner which cost 1,200,000 to build was sold in england where her doom sounded for 87,500 to the ship breakers the britan nic of the white star line which was fitted as sumptuously as a yacht was sold for 60,000 and is now only a memory goodwin spanks hopeful says he is ttr*d of ivnrsing new i vonthful dramatists new york aug 4 nat c goodwin was peevish toward youthful playv rights who have been cropping up of late along broadway when he was interviewed on the deck of the mauretanla as she was sailing for liverpool to-day a young ul tramarine reporter who had boarded the big cunarder was tactless enough to ask mr goodwin whether he had reached the point when it was about time for him to retire from the stage my mining inter ests are taking up much of my time of course said he bnt i am not yet con sidering retirement it does become tire some being wet nurse for new dramatists nowadays dramatists come ami go it would certainly be a welcome relief to find a few who would come and stay wedding with prince off nuptial hitch is reported between miss stewart and braganza baltimore md aug 4 a hitch in the marriage arrangements between miss anita stewart a daughter of mrs j h silent smith formerly miss armstrong of this city and prince miguel of bra ganza who has renounced his claim to the throne of portugal is reported from london it is said the prince is heavily involved in debt his liabilities in vienna being estimated at 1,000,000 but it ls believed this amount is exaggerated it had been a condition of the marriage that any child born should be reared a cath olic and it ls said miss stewart has abandoned her instructions ln that faith rob nebraska governor pickpockets jostle sjhalleiibcrgrer in crowd and get ixu omaha neb aug 4 coming across lowa to-day governor shallenberger stopped at marshalltown while sauntering around the waiting room there he got into a crowd and was jostled about for an instant he thought nothing of the matter at the time but shortly after getting on the train pur suing his journey westward he discovered that his pocket book containing 13u was gone arriving in omaha he had to borrow money to buy a ticket to lincoln the governor feels certain that pickpockets were working in the crowd at marshall town and that he was one of the victims knife saves 3-week babe starving infant survives delicate surgical feat the three-weeks-old son of william o'connor 344 sixty-third street success fully has undergone one of the most deli cate operations known to surgery after living two weeks without nourishment the baby was starving to death when dr j b kelley performed an operation for the removal of an obstruction in the stomach the infant now takes nourishment and its recovery seems assured the surgical feat was so uuusual that articles describing it are being prepared for thetaedical iour-i nals i 3,500 catholics ask ban on liquor men demonstration follows de mand of rev reardon that church be purged excommunication urged women and children parade michigan avenue in anti saloon demonstration the purging of the kotnan catholic church from all affiliation with men en gaged in tiie liquor traffic was demanded from the platform of the convention mass meeting of the catholic total abstinence league of america held last night at the auditorium theater three thousand live hundred people who crowded the theater despite the sultriness of the evening cheered vociferously when the rev james m beardon of st paul urged that saloon keepers be excluded from the sacraments of the church the brewer and distiller shared with the saloonkeeper the denunciation of the speakers who addressed the meeting - the catholic church has often been ac cused of courting alliance with the saloon of being in league with the promoters of this shameful traffic said the rev father reardon we challenge any one to ad duce a particle of truth in support of this infamous calumny unfortunately how ever many members of her fold are en gaged in this soul destroying business and many more are victims of its ruthless sway the auditorium gatheriug was preceded by a spectacular demonstration agaiust the saloons in the form of a parade of women and children which moved north in michi gan avenue starting at twenty-secoud street with songs and banners the marchers urged the triumph of the temperance cause the catholic church and the american saloon was the subject of father rear don's address he said warns catholic saloonkeepers he who knows what the american sa loon stands for who is cognizant of its re lation to the drink habit to every kind of lawlessness and erlme as well as to the social evil must be allied with the blind lf he dares to associate iu unholy bonds of a common purpose the chaste spouse of christ and the foul offering of the evil one the church is aware of the fact that the baneful ravages of intemperance are not confined to any-class of people or condition ln life they make their presence felt among the members of her fold to the great scandal of non-catholics and to the detriment of true religion for this reason the fathers of the plenary councils of bal timore exhorted pastors and implored them to make every possible effort to exter minate the vice of intemperance leading tip to his demand for the ex communication of saloonkeepers the speak er continued while the selling of liquor is not de clared to be unlawful in itself catholic engaged in it are admonished to choose a more becoming way of making a living and if thoy do not heed the warning voice of the church ln this matter but persist in dispensing alcoholic beverages to the pub lic they expose themselves to grave per sonal danger besides constituting them selves occasions of sin to others for their own sakes as well as for the spiritual good of their patrons the church forbids them to sell drink to minors and to thos who they foresee will abuse it they must say the third plenary council of baltimore keep their saloons closed on sunday and never allow blasphemy curs ing or obscene language proposes ex-communication but if notwithstanding this solemn admonition catholics persist in this unbe coming business and give occasion to ex cessive drinking especially on sundays pastors are exhorted to inflict on them thc severe penalty of exclusion from the sacraments the profanation of the lord's day by the sale of liquor and the fre quentation of places where lt is sold is regarded so prolific of evil results that they issued a special pastoral letter ln condemnation of it bishops who countenance law-breaking saloonkeepers as members of the church were next to receive the speaker's atten tion although he made no direct refer ence to the Chicago diocese it would do a world of good in giving practical expression to the attitude of the church and iu enhancing her prestige as a leader in the fight now being waged against the saloon-fed liquor traffic if the cath olic church cannot furnish the world with a rational and adequate solution of the drink problem then there is grave reason to fear that the world must continue to groan beueath the despair of the burden it imposes the rt rev j f canevin bishop of pittsburg scored the sunday caloon there is no man iu this broad land who is better or nobler for the open sunday saloon he said and there are hun dreds of thousands of wrecks strewn along the path of life who were helped down ward by this nation's cutse bishop cauevin gave some statistics ln 20 per cent of all divorces he said in temperance was the cause of domestic un happiuess the saloon he said was re sponsible for more than 50 per cent of the poverty more than 40 pe cent of the in sanity and more than 75 per cent of the crime among the people here in Chicago there are tendencies and lnflueuces at work he said to bring about the desecration of the sabbath and the degeneration of the laboring classes greed for gain lies at the bottom of the movement the increasing disregard for the lord's day is one of the signs of the materialistic spirit and ungodliness of our times chicago's drink bill the bishop said is 52,000,0(10 a year while the country as a whole spends 2,000,000,000 for liquor and 15250,000,000 for schools calumet carmen agree to hear mitten plan concessions are expected to avert strike sympathetic walk-out by l unionists prevented by advance in wages busse confers with brundage on peace plans while the street car men of the north west and south sides were preparing to take a strike vote yesterday an oiler was made the south Chicago car men that may lead to a peaceful solution of the entire strike situation president thomas e mitten of the chi oago city railway company which oper ates the calumet and south Chicago trac tion company made the offer this pro vides for an immediate increase in wages as soon as negotiations can decide upon the amount and future advances until the scale paid to the Chicago city railway employes is reached the offer to negotiate was accepted by the employes at a meeting last night at 0227 houston avenue and a conference will be held friday the greatest opposition to acceptance was due to the fact that president mitten had not given any definite figures ns to . what he intended to grant the employes the uuion decided that after lhe conference to-morrow the committee should call a spe cial meeting for to-morrow night or satur day morning to consider what further an swer president mitten had to make union cheers its delegates frank l meriam a member of the ' committee that visited president mitten and secured the promise of an increase ' in wages was cheered when he reported i told mr mitten he said that the thing most necessary was a plain state ment of what he would give us and that 1 he had failed to do so after the meeting president b a carter gave ont this statement the proposition given us by president mitten did not meet with much favor among the men but after a long discussion the committee was instructed by a vote to meet him again friday and negotiate along the lines suggested by him we do not want a strike unless we cannot reach a satisfactory agreement only one against strike meanwhile in other parts of the city the street car men were all talking strike a straw vote taken among thirty motormen and conductors on the north and west side lines found only one man who said he did not favor a strike in case the compa nies did not meet the full demands of the men there ate four street railways involved in the strike controversy and their presi dents are working together on all proposi tions the employes of the Chicago city railway and the Chicago railways com pany are voting to-day on a strike presidents roach and mitten will be notified this will be on friday if no further concessions are made by the trac tion presidents then the four presidents and executive boards will decide further action this will be the calling of special meetings to set a date for the strike to begin the action of the south Chicago car men was taken after the committee that met president mitten had conferred with president william quinlan and m c buckley of the two big traction compa nies employes it was decided that if the offer was definitely accepted it might influence the strike vote to-day then it was agreed that the committee should make its report to the meeting and urge that presideut mitten have au opportunity to tell what advances in wages he would give the ex act figures not only for the first advance but r future changes th it was sal would give the south 1 oj?i70e js.w djzegbii s./9 caste7z f , z..7~tsmi.itx officials of street railway employes organizations shown in conference with president of Chicago city railway company thos js s7/ttÂ£7t developments of day in threatened car strike p mployes of the calumet & *-* south Chicago railway a subsidiary concern of the Chicago city railway company agree to accept subject to further negotia tion president mitten's offer to in crease their wages gradually until the scale of the city railway em ployes is reached * * * employes of the north west and south side lines take vote on prop osition to strike * *. â€¢ sympathy strike of l employes averted by increase of pay * * * traction expert hereley asserts that general street railway strike in Chicago is out of the question * * * corporation counsel brundage holds conference with mayor busse on possible action by city's exec utive to bring about peace between men and employers * Â» * straw vote among thirty street railway employes shows only one man opposed to strike if demands for higher wages are not met Chicago men time to take a strike vote by saturday uoon the union officials re fused to tell when the strike would be called lf the men vote for it simply stat ing that thc matter would be settled after final conferences with presidents mitten and roach during the meeting and afterward at south Chicago signs of friction between the south Chicago men and those of the Chicago city railway appeared charges were made that the men north of seventy ninth street who are members of division 260 would not stick with the south Chicago men if the former secured an agreement satisfactory to its members the idea is to get the best terms we can said frank 1 meriam we are not looking for special favors hut onl.v that which we deserve if we do uot get that there will be a strike the straw vote showing almost uuani mous sentiment in favor of a strike was taken at random while the men were at work of thirty motormen and conduct ors all except one were in favor of a strike if they could not get their full de mands they said that they hoped an amicable settlement could be made but that if this failed they would favor a general tieup of the surface lines of the city three of the me vorked on the south side and are not members of unions they said that it would take but little to induce them to join the union and would positively go out if the union men ordered a strike mitten makes certain concessions the conference with president mitten began at 2:1*0 o'clock in the latter's office in the first national bank building the union was represented by president b a carter f l meriam e m deegan and o p moe manager j burgee was present president mitten outlined his offer to the men and for three hours it was thrashed out president mitten st^^l that while the fairbank estate is taxed 622,000 aid koraleski's charges re sult in total assessment of 1,076,000 on property the board of review yesterday justified the charge made by alderman frank w koraloski in the last aldermanic campaign that keilogg fair bank then secretary of the municipal voters league was a tax dodger tho board as a result of koral eski's charges spread au assessment of 822,000 for back taxes against the x k fairbank estate just because koraleski whoa smarting under criticism nude the muuh-ipal voters league broke loose and said some nasty thiugs about the fairbank family that fam ily will have to pay about 15,000 more lu taxes this year than lt has ever paid be fore he made his charges just about the time the assessors were completing their work so instead of an assessment of less than 200,000 against the estate last year they put it down for half a million or complaint of representatives of the estate yesterday the reviewers kuocked 4(',000 off the the assessors figures for this year but added the gÂ±2,000 for back taxes making the total upon which the estate will have to pay 1,070,000 the city tax sharp k e valentine dug up the figures upon which the back assess ment was made he set forth that the estate has been getting off lightly for years and that n k fairbank did some tax-dodging when he was alive on val entine's figures the board assessed a lump sum of 350,000 against the estate for the year 11*02 and which was intended to cover the years up to mr fail-bank's death and then added the following sums for subse quent years 1005 80,000 1000 s1,000 1907 70,000 1008 35,000 the board was a great deal more gener ous to franklin macveagh secretary of the treasury than it was to the fairbank es tate it reduced his personal assessment from 30,000 lo 25,000 and then cut the personal assessment ot franklin mac veagh & co â€” in which the secretary the oretically has no interest at present â€” from 710,000 the estimate by the assessors to 437,500 a parr of that loss was made up though by boosting the assessmeiit of the jacob dreyfus estate from 32,500 to 100 000 the board spent a greater part of the day ou town of lake real estate valuations making a large number of reductions that ran from 300 to 5,000 to-day will be given to realty matters also and in the morning the exemptious for churches schools etc will come up when a very lively time is looked for mullaney gets shippy's job to be made chief today busse offers place to private secretary as sick head of department resigns court ' cil to ratify appointment graft war may be retarded as appointee is enemy of wayman and defender of mccann indicted inspector â€” â€” Â„.â€” mayor's campaign for second term launched with move to use police i'm good soldier says mullaney bernard j mutianey private secretary to mayor busse will be appointed chief of police to-day nnd the campaign of mayor busse for a second term will be inaugurat ed when the new chief takes office george m shippy resigned as chief yes terday his letter of resignation sent to the mayor in the care of inspector nicnolas hunt gave ill health as the cause an hour after he received the letter mayor busse gave out word that t^^m would be a new chief appointed immedlah iy anu called a special meeting of the cor^b cil to confirm the appointment the speci^b meeting will be held to-day at 11 o'eloek^b when the name of mullane.v will be sentfl in and confirmation of the appointment asked mayor busse said la"t night that he did not know whether the uew chief would be appointed to-day or not he seemed an noyed that muunney'a name had been men tioned so early mayor tells of offer mtlmmm i have offered the office io i'lfflalÃŸ said the mayor he has asked me not^o insist on his taking it i have told him i would like him to accept he has asked uutil to-morrow morning to give his answer he wishes t n consult some of his friends i have told him that i would wait until the morn n that is the rea son i cannot say positively that he will be the next chief mullaney himself said he would have his answer ready for mayor busse to-day the mayor seems to want me to take the place 1 wish he had uot asked me said mullaney but i am a good soldier and am not afraid to tackle any task and this one ln my opinion is one of the toughest jobs a man could undertake not so much because of the work attached to it but because the chief of police is tha target at all times for criticism from every source and he has to stand for a lot that ought to be coming to the other fellow \ i have not yet accepted the position andl have made no decision one way or the other i am still up in the air you might say i will not decide until i have slept over it and i will let mayor busse know in the morning whether i accept or decline i have not heard who is being considered for lhe place in case i decline it the teuder of the appointment was not made to mullaney formally until last even ing nt 3 o'clock he was summoned to a conference in the busse coal office 391 sedgwick street with commissioner of public works hanberg and corporation counsel brundage there he was told by the mayor that he seemed the most avail able person to assume the duties of chief of police mullaney and shippy foes it has been known in official circles for several weeks that mullaney would be the next chief that he was not appointed soouer was due to the desire of the mayor to let shippy send in his resignation rather than ask for it it was a foregone con clusion sevral months ago that shlppy wai going to step down and out it was gen erally believed that a quarrel he had with mullaney was responsible for the desire on the part of the administration to part com pany with the chief mullaney and the chief had not been on very friendly terms for several months with mullaney as chief a giant political miichine with the police force as the prin cipal cog is to be built up to aid busse in his campaign for re-election the mayor has been wavering on the subject of a sec ond campaign the most urgent booster for a second figl.t has been mullaney mul laney's word is almost law with busse and when the big secretary pointed out how easily a campaign could be conducted with the aid of the police and thc aid of the same band of democrats that knifed dunue in 1907 the mayor was forced to see the light of day mullaney volunteered to bo the man who would build the ma chine that is why he ls to be chief the busse-mullaney machine is expect j ed to be able to cope with any opposing m machine that springs up the power of m lorimer recently acquired through the â– electiou of the blond boss as united siate.-i^b senator will be disputed and unless lorf^b mer agrees to fall in line with busse tbth next primary election in cook count.-^h will be a test of strength between thjh two with mullaney directing the mayotim forces the death of the recent new'h primary law pointed the way to the valuah of the police lu a political fight and theh mayor's private secretary had not muci^m trouble in convincing busse that his courseh lay in seizing the police force as a polits ical asset the reuomination of busse if it shoolrs happen would leave the sullivan candidate for mayor whoever he might be ont omw the running because sullivan and hih baud are pledged to busse for a seco_fl j ___ continued on 2m k 3d column t continued on 2d page sth column f weather forecast m Chicago and vicinity gen erally fair weather thursday and w7j probably friday not much change v in temperature light variable winds m shifting to southerly i_sÂ§k you will congratulate yourself upon acquiring the habit of reading examiner want ads reading the want ads each morning with a care equal to that given news matter and editorials is a first-class drill in the development of thrift the want ads appear to-day in the classified section among other classifications will be found motor marts real estate sewing machines musical instruments heip wanted business chances furnished rooms horses and carriages the examiner is the present want medium of Chicago rnot even ll the baseball news is,|p ga more interesting than 7 tjf the want ads if m

Chicago examiner thursday august 5 1909 14 pages vol vii no 195 a m price one cent delivered carrier 30 cents per month final tariff vote will be cast in the senate at 2 p m to-day opposition spends night in attacks only ten-minute talks to precede balloting ef guard joker correction aldrich resorts to legislative trick to fend off amend ments by opponents washington aug 4 the concurrent resolution that will correct the errors in the leather schedule was introduced in the senate to-day and to-night the final an athemas were hurled at the tariff bill by the republicans who are in opposition to-morrow ten-minute speeches will be leveled at the measure until 2 o'clock ar rives and then will come tlie final vote there is not the slightest doubt on the part of any one now that the bill will be come a law by nightfall the same success will attend the con current resolution though there are not a few senators who if outspoken would confess to a fear that at the last minute there may he a hitch that will put the correction of the leather schedule over till fall the aldrich plan however is to fling this bone at the opposition and kill all other efforts to improve the bill customs court slaughtered the day's events included the practical slaughter of the customs court tn the house which cut ont of the urgent de ficiency appropriation bill all appropraitons for salaries for the judges of the proposed court according to senator borah he has an understanding with the attorney gen eral whereby these judges will not be ap pointed but senator aldrich to-night as serted that the president would assert his prerogative and appoint the judges and fix a tentative salary depending on congress to appropriate the money at the regular session next winter the president will receive a petition to morrow signed by democrats and repub licans alike requesting him to name former congressman hepburn of lowa as one of the judges the speeches to-day were made by sen ators simmons beveridge hale and gamble and to-night senators cummins and daniel addressed the senate in the main the condemnations of the bill which were delivered by cummins and beveridge for the insurgent republicans have been temperate this is out of respect to the wishes of the president who at the inter view which he had wuh senators bev eridge and dplliver yesterday requested that if they could not vote for the bill they would be as moderate as possible in condemning it pays tribute to Taft senator cummins in his final attack on the bill to-night declared that he would not accept 10 cents on 1 that being the proportion of downward revision which he estimates is afforded by the bill he paid tribute to president Taft for his efforts in behalf of downward revision and credited to the president all the downward revision that the bill achieves but he expressed the conviction that the president started too late to secure the sort of downward revision that was promised by the repub lican party senator cummins concluded at a few min utes past eleven and senator daniel took the floor to explain as the minority repre sentative on the finance committee and in the senate conference committee the dem ocratic position with regard to the bill at midnight senator daniel was still talking to a sleepy senate aldrich works legislative trick the concurrent resolution to perfect the leather schedule that tho votes of the western range senators might be had for the tariff bill was presented by sen ator aldrich late this afternoon with consummate legislative skill he threw the resolution before the senate under conditions that prevented amend ment at the time trusting to lhis own powers and to those of the president to prevent embarrassment later mccumber a much-abused senator from north dakota was used as a stalking horse aldrich introduced his resolution and mccumber by agreement followed immediately with a joint resolution chang ing the drawback provisions of the bill threatened amendments that were to fol low would come up on the joint resolu tion the concurrent resolution is to pass the joint resolution may pass next winter senator mclaurin of mississippi rose to the bait and sent along his amendment placing cotton bagging on the free list this amendment falls upon the resolution there were other amendments threatened by thelr proponents who after thinking the question oyer decided to await develop ments following the introduction of the resolu tions aldrich attempted to split the re maining time for debate between the friends and opponents of the conference re port classing the republican insurgents with the democrats cummins resented this sharply he said he was a republi can while perfectly willing to trust to the fairness of the democrats he refused to be cast overboard by the republicans bailey came to his rescue with a propo sition to divide the time into three parts but gallinger objected i will never consent to the adoption of huge ship races to save tariff on costly cargo other liners bound for united states are hunted by wireless so speed may be increased new york aug 4 on board the giant liner pennsylvania bound for this port is a costly cargo of wines brandy and french champagnes it is said besides other fine merchandise down in her furnace rooms firemen are stoking coal as if their lives depended ou it for if the liner reaches new york before the new tariff schedule i goes into effect it will mean a saving of 10,000 to 20,000 in duties the pennsylvania is due to-morrow to day her agents sent several wireless mess ages urging more speed the pennsylvania was not the only west ward bound ship the wireless operators were trying to reach to-day bound for here is the st paul from southampton and cherbourg due on satur day also due on that day are the cam pania from liverpool and queenstown the french liner la touraine from havre the duca degli abruzzi from naples the hamburg from naples and the st an drew from antwerp all these vessels are said to carry in their cargoes goods on which there is to be a greatly advanced duty in the new schedules la touraine is known to have a large cargo of fine champagnes and brandies the new tariff schedule does not become a law until the day after the president affixes his signature want a ship great old liners for sale cheap new york aug 4 the day of the single-screw liner is done the once crack cunard racers etruria and unibria which first cut under the six-day record are tied up useless at birkenhead england to-day the cunard line agents announced that these two vessels which cost nearly 1,400,000 each to build were for sale and that no reasonable offer would be refused the reason is they are too costly to be op erated in this day of twin and quadruple screws and of the turbine engine the tjmbria was launched in 1885 and the etruria came out a year later they were the wonder of that day they were considered ocean mammoths and it was debated whether much larger vessels would be built but the etruria and umbrla were enor mous coal burners they devoured more than 450 tons a day and when the new turbines appeared they made trips with ever-decreasing passenger lists and finally were laid off the alaska the once famous gnion liner which cost 1,200,000 to build was sold in england where her doom sounded for 87,500 to the ship breakers the britan nic of the white star line which was fitted as sumptuously as a yacht was sold for 60,000 and is now only a memory goodwin spanks hopeful says he is ttr*d of ivnrsing new i vonthful dramatists new york aug 4 nat c goodwin was peevish toward youthful playv rights who have been cropping up of late along broadway when he was interviewed on the deck of the mauretanla as she was sailing for liverpool to-day a young ul tramarine reporter who had boarded the big cunarder was tactless enough to ask mr goodwin whether he had reached the point when it was about time for him to retire from the stage my mining inter ests are taking up much of my time of course said he bnt i am not yet con sidering retirement it does become tire some being wet nurse for new dramatists nowadays dramatists come ami go it would certainly be a welcome relief to find a few who would come and stay wedding with prince off nuptial hitch is reported between miss stewart and braganza baltimore md aug 4 a hitch in the marriage arrangements between miss anita stewart a daughter of mrs j h silent smith formerly miss armstrong of this city and prince miguel of bra ganza who has renounced his claim to the throne of portugal is reported from london it is said the prince is heavily involved in debt his liabilities in vienna being estimated at 1,000,000 but it ls believed this amount is exaggerated it had been a condition of the marriage that any child born should be reared a cath olic and it ls said miss stewart has abandoned her instructions ln that faith rob nebraska governor pickpockets jostle sjhalleiibcrgrer in crowd and get ixu omaha neb aug 4 coming across lowa to-day governor shallenberger stopped at marshalltown while sauntering around the waiting room there he got into a crowd and was jostled about for an instant he thought nothing of the matter at the time but shortly after getting on the train pur suing his journey westward he discovered that his pocket book containing 13u was gone arriving in omaha he had to borrow money to buy a ticket to lincoln the governor feels certain that pickpockets were working in the crowd at marshall town and that he was one of the victims knife saves 3-week babe starving infant survives delicate surgical feat the three-weeks-old son of william o'connor 344 sixty-third street success fully has undergone one of the most deli cate operations known to surgery after living two weeks without nourishment the baby was starving to death when dr j b kelley performed an operation for the removal of an obstruction in the stomach the infant now takes nourishment and its recovery seems assured the surgical feat was so uuusual that articles describing it are being prepared for thetaedical iour-i nals i 3,500 catholics ask ban on liquor men demonstration follows de mand of rev reardon that church be purged excommunication urged women and children parade michigan avenue in anti saloon demonstration the purging of the kotnan catholic church from all affiliation with men en gaged in tiie liquor traffic was demanded from the platform of the convention mass meeting of the catholic total abstinence league of america held last night at the auditorium theater three thousand live hundred people who crowded the theater despite the sultriness of the evening cheered vociferously when the rev james m beardon of st paul urged that saloon keepers be excluded from the sacraments of the church the brewer and distiller shared with the saloonkeeper the denunciation of the speakers who addressed the meeting - the catholic church has often been ac cused of courting alliance with the saloon of being in league with the promoters of this shameful traffic said the rev father reardon we challenge any one to ad duce a particle of truth in support of this infamous calumny unfortunately how ever many members of her fold are en gaged in this soul destroying business and many more are victims of its ruthless sway the auditorium gatheriug was preceded by a spectacular demonstration agaiust the saloons in the form of a parade of women and children which moved north in michi gan avenue starting at twenty-secoud street with songs and banners the marchers urged the triumph of the temperance cause the catholic church and the american saloon was the subject of father rear don's address he said warns catholic saloonkeepers he who knows what the american sa loon stands for who is cognizant of its re lation to the drink habit to every kind of lawlessness and erlme as well as to the social evil must be allied with the blind lf he dares to associate iu unholy bonds of a common purpose the chaste spouse of christ and the foul offering of the evil one the church is aware of the fact that the baneful ravages of intemperance are not confined to any-class of people or condition ln life they make their presence felt among the members of her fold to the great scandal of non-catholics and to the detriment of true religion for this reason the fathers of the plenary councils of bal timore exhorted pastors and implored them to make every possible effort to exter minate the vice of intemperance leading tip to his demand for the ex communication of saloonkeepers the speak er continued while the selling of liquor is not de clared to be unlawful in itself catholic engaged in it are admonished to choose a more becoming way of making a living and if thoy do not heed the warning voice of the church ln this matter but persist in dispensing alcoholic beverages to the pub lic they expose themselves to grave per sonal danger besides constituting them selves occasions of sin to others for their own sakes as well as for the spiritual good of their patrons the church forbids them to sell drink to minors and to thos who they foresee will abuse it they must say the third plenary council of baltimore keep their saloons closed on sunday and never allow blasphemy curs ing or obscene language proposes ex-communication but if notwithstanding this solemn admonition catholics persist in this unbe coming business and give occasion to ex cessive drinking especially on sundays pastors are exhorted to inflict on them thc severe penalty of exclusion from the sacraments the profanation of the lord's day by the sale of liquor and the fre quentation of places where lt is sold is regarded so prolific of evil results that they issued a special pastoral letter ln condemnation of it bishops who countenance law-breaking saloonkeepers as members of the church were next to receive the speaker's atten tion although he made no direct refer ence to the Chicago diocese it would do a world of good in giving practical expression to the attitude of the church and iu enhancing her prestige as a leader in the fight now being waged against the saloon-fed liquor traffic if the cath olic church cannot furnish the world with a rational and adequate solution of the drink problem then there is grave reason to fear that the world must continue to groan beueath the despair of the burden it imposes the rt rev j f canevin bishop of pittsburg scored the sunday caloon there is no man iu this broad land who is better or nobler for the open sunday saloon he said and there are hun dreds of thousands of wrecks strewn along the path of life who were helped down ward by this nation's cutse bishop cauevin gave some statistics ln 20 per cent of all divorces he said in temperance was the cause of domestic un happiuess the saloon he said was re sponsible for more than 50 per cent of the poverty more than 40 pe cent of the in sanity and more than 75 per cent of the crime among the people here in Chicago there are tendencies and lnflueuces at work he said to bring about the desecration of the sabbath and the degeneration of the laboring classes greed for gain lies at the bottom of the movement the increasing disregard for the lord's day is one of the signs of the materialistic spirit and ungodliness of our times chicago's drink bill the bishop said is 52,000,0(10 a year while the country as a whole spends 2,000,000,000 for liquor and 15250,000,000 for schools calumet carmen agree to hear mitten plan concessions are expected to avert strike sympathetic walk-out by l unionists prevented by advance in wages busse confers with brundage on peace plans while the street car men of the north west and south sides were preparing to take a strike vote yesterday an oiler was made the south Chicago car men that may lead to a peaceful solution of the entire strike situation president thomas e mitten of the chi oago city railway company which oper ates the calumet and south Chicago trac tion company made the offer this pro vides for an immediate increase in wages as soon as negotiations can decide upon the amount and future advances until the scale paid to the Chicago city railway employes is reached the offer to negotiate was accepted by the employes at a meeting last night at 0227 houston avenue and a conference will be held friday the greatest opposition to acceptance was due to the fact that president mitten had not given any definite figures ns to . what he intended to grant the employes the uuion decided that after lhe conference to-morrow the committee should call a spe cial meeting for to-morrow night or satur day morning to consider what further an swer president mitten had to make union cheers its delegates frank l meriam a member of the ' committee that visited president mitten and secured the promise of an increase ' in wages was cheered when he reported i told mr mitten he said that the thing most necessary was a plain state ment of what he would give us and that 1 he had failed to do so after the meeting president b a carter gave ont this statement the proposition given us by president mitten did not meet with much favor among the men but after a long discussion the committee was instructed by a vote to meet him again friday and negotiate along the lines suggested by him we do not want a strike unless we cannot reach a satisfactory agreement only one against strike meanwhile in other parts of the city the street car men were all talking strike a straw vote taken among thirty motormen and conductors on the north and west side lines found only one man who said he did not favor a strike in case the compa nies did not meet the full demands of the men there ate four street railways involved in the strike controversy and their presi dents are working together on all proposi tions the employes of the Chicago city railway and the Chicago railways com pany are voting to-day on a strike presidents roach and mitten will be notified this will be on friday if no further concessions are made by the trac tion presidents then the four presidents and executive boards will decide further action this will be the calling of special meetings to set a date for the strike to begin the action of the south Chicago car men was taken after the committee that met president mitten had conferred with president william quinlan and m c buckley of the two big traction compa nies employes it was decided that if the offer was definitely accepted it might influence the strike vote to-day then it was agreed that the committee should make its report to the meeting and urge that presideut mitten have au opportunity to tell what advances in wages he would give the ex act figures not only for the first advance but r future changes th it was sal would give the south 1 oj?i70e js.w djzegbii s./9 caste7z f , z..7~tsmi.itx officials of street railway employes organizations shown in conference with president of Chicago city railway company thos js s7/ttÂ£7t developments of day in threatened car strike p mployes of the calumet & *-* south Chicago railway a subsidiary concern of the Chicago city railway company agree to accept subject to further negotia tion president mitten's offer to in crease their wages gradually until the scale of the city railway em ployes is reached * * * employes of the north west and south side lines take vote on prop osition to strike * *. â€¢ sympathy strike of l employes averted by increase of pay * * * traction expert hereley asserts that general street railway strike in Chicago is out of the question * * * corporation counsel brundage holds conference with mayor busse on possible action by city's exec utive to bring about peace between men and employers * Â» * straw vote among thirty street railway employes shows only one man opposed to strike if demands for higher wages are not met Chicago men time to take a strike vote by saturday uoon the union officials re fused to tell when the strike would be called lf the men vote for it simply stat ing that thc matter would be settled after final conferences with presidents mitten and roach during the meeting and afterward at south Chicago signs of friction between the south Chicago men and those of the Chicago city railway appeared charges were made that the men north of seventy ninth street who are members of division 260 would not stick with the south Chicago men if the former secured an agreement satisfactory to its members the idea is to get the best terms we can said frank 1 meriam we are not looking for special favors hut onl.v that which we deserve if we do uot get that there will be a strike the straw vote showing almost uuani mous sentiment in favor of a strike was taken at random while the men were at work of thirty motormen and conduct ors all except one were in favor of a strike if they could not get their full de mands they said that they hoped an amicable settlement could be made but that if this failed they would favor a general tieup of the surface lines of the city three of the me vorked on the south side and are not members of unions they said that it would take but little to induce them to join the union and would positively go out if the union men ordered a strike mitten makes certain concessions the conference with president mitten began at 2:1*0 o'clock in the latter's office in the first national bank building the union was represented by president b a carter f l meriam e m deegan and o p moe manager j burgee was present president mitten outlined his offer to the men and for three hours it was thrashed out president mitten st^^l that while the fairbank estate is taxed 622,000 aid koraleski's charges re sult in total assessment of 1,076,000 on property the board of review yesterday justified the charge made by alderman frank w koraloski in the last aldermanic campaign that keilogg fair bank then secretary of the municipal voters league was a tax dodger tho board as a result of koral eski's charges spread au assessment of 822,000 for back taxes against the x k fairbank estate just because koraleski whoa smarting under criticism nude the muuh-ipal voters league broke loose and said some nasty thiugs about the fairbank family that fam ily will have to pay about 15,000 more lu taxes this year than lt has ever paid be fore he made his charges just about the time the assessors were completing their work so instead of an assessment of less than 200,000 against the estate last year they put it down for half a million or complaint of representatives of the estate yesterday the reviewers kuocked 4(',000 off the the assessors figures for this year but added the gÂ±2,000 for back taxes making the total upon which the estate will have to pay 1,070,000 the city tax sharp k e valentine dug up the figures upon which the back assess ment was made he set forth that the estate has been getting off lightly for years and that n k fairbank did some tax-dodging when he was alive on val entine's figures the board assessed a lump sum of 350,000 against the estate for the year 11*02 and which was intended to cover the years up to mr fail-bank's death and then added the following sums for subse quent years 1005 80,000 1000 s1,000 1907 70,000 1008 35,000 the board was a great deal more gener ous to franklin macveagh secretary of the treasury than it was to the fairbank es tate it reduced his personal assessment from 30,000 lo 25,000 and then cut the personal assessment ot franklin mac veagh & co â€” in which the secretary the oretically has no interest at present â€” from 710,000 the estimate by the assessors to 437,500 a parr of that loss was made up though by boosting the assessmeiit of the jacob dreyfus estate from 32,500 to 100 000 the board spent a greater part of the day ou town of lake real estate valuations making a large number of reductions that ran from 300 to 5,000 to-day will be given to realty matters also and in the morning the exemptious for churches schools etc will come up when a very lively time is looked for mullaney gets shippy's job to be made chief today busse offers place to private secretary as sick head of department resigns court ' cil to ratify appointment graft war may be retarded as appointee is enemy of wayman and defender of mccann indicted inspector â€” â€” Â„.â€” mayor's campaign for second term launched with move to use police i'm good soldier says mullaney bernard j mutianey private secretary to mayor busse will be appointed chief of police to-day nnd the campaign of mayor busse for a second term will be inaugurat ed when the new chief takes office george m shippy resigned as chief yes terday his letter of resignation sent to the mayor in the care of inspector nicnolas hunt gave ill health as the cause an hour after he received the letter mayor busse gave out word that t^^m would be a new chief appointed immedlah iy anu called a special meeting of the cor^b cil to confirm the appointment the speci^b meeting will be held to-day at 11 o'eloek^b when the name of mullane.v will be sentfl in and confirmation of the appointment asked mayor busse said la"t night that he did not know whether the uew chief would be appointed to-day or not he seemed an noyed that muunney'a name had been men tioned so early mayor tells of offer mtlmmm i have offered the office io i'lfflalÃŸ said the mayor he has asked me not^o insist on his taking it i have told him i would like him to accept he has asked uutil to-morrow morning to give his answer he wishes t n consult some of his friends i have told him that i would wait until the morn n that is the rea son i cannot say positively that he will be the next chief mullaney himself said he would have his answer ready for mayor busse to-day the mayor seems to want me to take the place 1 wish he had uot asked me said mullaney but i am a good soldier and am not afraid to tackle any task and this one ln my opinion is one of the toughest jobs a man could undertake not so much because of the work attached to it but because the chief of police is tha target at all times for criticism from every source and he has to stand for a lot that ought to be coming to the other fellow \ i have not yet accepted the position andl have made no decision one way or the other i am still up in the air you might say i will not decide until i have slept over it and i will let mayor busse know in the morning whether i accept or decline i have not heard who is being considered for lhe place in case i decline it the teuder of the appointment was not made to mullaney formally until last even ing nt 3 o'clock he was summoned to a conference in the busse coal office 391 sedgwick street with commissioner of public works hanberg and corporation counsel brundage there he was told by the mayor that he seemed the most avail able person to assume the duties of chief of police mullaney and shippy foes it has been known in official circles for several weeks that mullaney would be the next chief that he was not appointed soouer was due to the desire of the mayor to let shippy send in his resignation rather than ask for it it was a foregone con clusion sevral months ago that shlppy wai going to step down and out it was gen erally believed that a quarrel he had with mullaney was responsible for the desire on the part of the administration to part com pany with the chief mullaney and the chief had not been on very friendly terms for several months with mullaney as chief a giant political miichine with the police force as the prin cipal cog is to be built up to aid busse in his campaign for re-election the mayor has been wavering on the subject of a sec ond campaign the most urgent booster for a second figl.t has been mullaney mul laney's word is almost law with busse and when the big secretary pointed out how easily a campaign could be conducted with the aid of the police and thc aid of the same band of democrats that knifed dunue in 1907 the mayor was forced to see the light of day mullaney volunteered to bo the man who would build the ma chine that is why he ls to be chief the busse-mullaney machine is expect j ed to be able to cope with any opposing m machine that springs up the power of m lorimer recently acquired through the â– electiou of the blond boss as united siate.-i^b senator will be disputed and unless lorf^b mer agrees to fall in line with busse tbth next primary election in cook count.-^h will be a test of strength between thjh two with mullaney directing the mayotim forces the death of the recent new'h primary law pointed the way to the valuah of the police lu a political fight and theh mayor's private secretary had not muci^m trouble in convincing busse that his courseh lay in seizing the police force as a polits ical asset the reuomination of busse if it shoolrs happen would leave the sullivan candidate for mayor whoever he might be ont omw the running because sullivan and hih baud are pledged to busse for a seco_fl j ___ continued on 2m k 3d column t continued on 2d page sth column f weather forecast m Chicago and vicinity gen erally fair weather thursday and w7j probably friday not much change v in temperature light variable winds m shifting to southerly i_sÂ§k you will congratulate yourself upon acquiring the habit of reading examiner want ads reading the want ads each morning with a care equal to that given news matter and editorials is a first-class drill in the development of thrift the want ads appear to-day in the classified section among other classifications will be found motor marts real estate sewing machines musical instruments heip wanted business chances furnished rooms horses and carriages the examiner is the present want medium of Chicago rnot even ll the baseball news is,|p ga more interesting than 7 tjf the want ads if m